assorted sweets #52003.04.06

The History of Windows: Screens and history of the OS all the way back to before version 1.0. (via RootBlog)

Do you know who's killing your email marketing?

iTools Language Tools: Every word-related tool you can imagine. Thesauruses (is that a real plural for Thesarus? Shouldn't it be thesauri?), dictionaries, translation services and more. Yum.

On a related note, this visual thesaurus is one of the best uses for that thinkmap-type technology I've seen. It would be even better if the Java didn't cause IE5.1 Mac and IE 6.0 Win to crash occasionally.

Are you a fontaholic?: Can you distinguish at a glance between different foundries' cuttings of Garamond and other classic typefaces? Is your personal collection of fonts large enough to require a font manager? Do you drool when visiting the Linotype, Adobe, or other major commercial type foundries? You may just need Fonts Anonymous.

Electric Tiki. Go check it out. Very cool.

Seamless City: A 30 mile long continuous portrait of San Francisco. Such a beautiful way to capture my favourite city. (via BoingBoing)

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